Attorney General Roy Cooper

(pictured above: Ken Spaulding speaks in Winston-Salem last week.) North Carolinians won’t decide if they want to keep the governor they have or go with someone else until fall 2016. But Democrat Ken Spaulding is already on the campaign trail;...

(pictured above: Kalvin Michael Smith’s dad, August Dark, hugs Darryl Hunt as Larry Little looks on from nearby.) It is a forgone conclusion that Attorney General Roy Cooper will run for governor next year. He’s all but interviewed interior...

(pictured above: August Dark, Kalvin Michael Smith’s father, speaks to supporters at Lloyd Presbyterian Church.) For Darryl Hunt, Sept. 11 was a day of infamy long before 2001. On that day in 1984, Hunt, then only 19, was arrested by...

(pictured above: Ken Spaulding is running for governor.) Ken Spaulding, a former member of the N.C. House of Representative, and others are upset about N.C. Democratic Party Chairman Randy Voller’s seeming coronation of Attorney General Roy...

Forsyth County is far from the only place with an ugly history of Keystone Cop investigators and overzealous prosecutors. They are all over, but, unfortunately, in whatever town, hamlet or city, there is one constant: the targets of their wraths...